(AMERICAN INDIANS) Hayes Litho Co Execution of the Thirty Ei

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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Hayes Litho Co. Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato Minnesota December 26, 1862. Chromolithograph, 16 3/4 x 21 inches; minimal wear. Buffalo, NY: John C. Wise, 1883

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In the midst of the Civil War, the Union army also fought the Dakota War on the Minnesota frontier. At the conclusion, 498 Dakota Sioux warriors were put on trial; 300 were sentenced to death. President Lincoln commuted most of the sentences, but 38 of them died in the largest mass execution in American history.